Oscar-winner Gary Oldman’s espionage sequence ”Slow Horses” has been renewed for a fifth season, streamer Apple TV+ has introduced.

Oldman will return because the irascible spy Jackson Lamb within the darkly comedic sequence, primarily based on the ”Slough House” novels by creator Mick Herron. It is tailored for tv by Will Smith.

The present follows a dysfunctional staff of British intelligence brokers who, for numerous career-ending causes, have been put out to pasture in Slough House – incomes them the nickname Slow Horses.

It additionally options Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, Jack Lowden as River Cartwright and Christopher Chung as Roddy Ho.

The fifth season of the sequence might be tailored from the fifth e book in Herron’s sequence, “London Rules”, Apple TV+ mentioned in a press launch.

”Everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, however when a sequence of more and more weird occasions happen throughout the town, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how every thing is related. After all, Lamb is aware of that on the planet of espionage, ‘London Rules’ ought to at all times apply,” the official logline learn.

Produced by See-Saw Films, ”Slow Horses” began with its first season in April 2022, adopted by its second season in December 2022. Its third season ended with the finale episode on December 27, 2023, and the fourth season will come out later this yr.

The sequence is govt produced by Smith, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Julian Stevens and Graham Yost.

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